Hi guys and gals,
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I got my self a new box on Wednesday. Asus mobo, nforce chipset (forget the model number), AMD X2 processor and a gforce video card. It was more or less to celebrate this release
. Plus I have been using the old Athlon XP2100+ box for the last 6 years and thought .. why not?
I also decided to download Mandriva .. (
).. ha.. yeah Mandrake converted me to Linux many moons ago and in their defence they were arguably the first newby friendly distro targeting windows refugees.
I have been in Mandriva for the past couple of hours (not now though). I tested Jemimah's Puppeee script for super easy installation of Puppeee from any distro and hopefully offered her some useful feedback. In the mean time I was playing with Puppeee on my Eee-701SD and Lupu on my son's Lenovo R61e Thinkpad.
I discovered Barry's announcement on his blog and that's when I posted above .. "We've gone official.."
Still in Mandriva I decided to download lupu-500.iso from Ibiblio... (thanks ibiblio for hosting our files) but it was terribly slow, I think Barry mentioned that yesterday. So I checked the Australian mirror Aarnet. It was down, some network issue.
. Five minutes later I checked again and it was back up with an apology mentioning the outage. (Thanks Aarnet too). I grabbed the iso in about 10 minutes..
..then went to burn it .. still in Mandriva, but, no burning app!!!
. (Um, nearly a 700 meg iso with no burner??? I remember Mandrake-9 had everything! It was on a mag cover CD, I had no chance to download 700 meg on dialup at the time! Ziggy, give them pburn please, It will make for more Puppy converts
) . Well I opened the software installer and installed k3b, the KDE burner app, hmm.., much like Pburn but about 10 times the size (with dependencies). I burnt my pristine Lucid Puppy 5 CD and am now here typing this rant.
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Now enjoying my Lupu.
Cheers